Search Results for: forecasting

… charging anywhere near these prices to software vendors for advisory services. I did receive a design project for forecasting software. However, that was a small project and is not the type of advisory that Gartner sells. These budgets that Gartner requests that run in the hundreds of thousands of dollars could only arise from MQ positioning.
I would like it if vendors would tell me exactly what they paid — but they don’t do that. They don’t ever want me to know how much they have paid Gartner — partially because it is incriminating — and there is no upside …

… is constantly overpromising what Gartner can do for vendors. This is covered in the article How IT Analyst Firms like Gartner and Forrester Overpomise Marketing Exposure to Vendors.
Before we get to a comparison, it is important to note that there is no reason for a buyer to restrict their search to even the 18 or so vendors in the MQ, much less just those in the Leader quadrant.
Here is why.
In just the forecasting category (which has fewer vendors than the overall SCP category), I estimate over 50 (let us say 55) vendors that would qualify as providing